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“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.” (Great Expectations Quotes)
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think – but you know best – that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think – but you know best – she was not worth gaining over.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before-more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“I am what you designed me to be. I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt.” (Great Expectations Quotes)
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“I never had one hour’s happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly – and that is the sharpest crying of all.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“I’ll tell you,” said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, “what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter – as I did!.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one’s self in going by.” (Great Expectations Quotes)
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“Life is made of so many partings welded together”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. ”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.” (Great Expectations Quotes)
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Great Expectations
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“You are in every line I have ever read.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
“You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since-on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.”
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
